1. Critical behaviour in Au fragmentation at 10.7A GeV
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K. Söderström, P. Y. Zheng, L. K. Mangotra, K. G. Gulamov, R. Sethi, V. I. Bubnov, V. A. Plyushchev, S. Vokal, V. Kumar, Y.X. Li, Madan M. Aggarwal, V. S. Navotny, G.M. Chen, Joakim Nystrand, L. N. Svechnikova, L. P. Chernova, A.K. Musaeva, N. A. Salmanova, V. S. Bhatia, Anju Bhasin, N. Saidkhanov, C.I. Shakhova, L. S. Liu, V. G. Larionova, D. Skelding, J. T. Rhee, M. Tothova, E. R. Ganssauge, V. V. Rusakova, I. Y. Chasnikov, L. G. Sarkisova, C.B. Yang, Z. Q. Weng, Y. A. Alexandrov, Bo Jakobsson, Rashmi Raniwala, L. Karlsson, L.S. Peak, R. J. Wilkes, J. J. Lord, S.A. Krasnov, I. Manhas, V. R. Sarkisyan, J. Grote, N.A. Tawfik, Dong-Hai Zhang, M. I. Tretyakova, S.Z. Nasyrov, N. G. Peresadko, E. S. Basova, A.M. Seitimbetov, N. K. Rao, Janka Vrlakova, D. C. Zhou, A. S. Gaitinov, X. Cai, U.I. Tuleeva, F. A. Avetyan, A. M. Bakich, M. Roeper, Maria Haiduc, M. Karabova, M. M. Chernyavski, L. Just, H. Q. Wang, E. K. Kanygina, S. Garpman, M. I. Adamovich, X.R. Wang, W. Y. Qian, S. K. Badyal, Z.G. Liu, S. I. Zhokhova, Alexander Kovalenko, B. Singh, N. P. Andreeva, S. B. Luo, S. P. Kharlamov, T. P. Trofimova, Shi-kun Wang, V. G. Bogdanov, U. Henjes, S. G. Gerassimov, Y.M. Qin, N. S. Lukicheva, G. I. Orlova, Vivek K. Gupta, Shiv K. Gupta, K. B. Bhalla, S. Dhamija, R. Amirikas, Evert Anders Stenlund, N. A. Marutyan, S. Lokanathan, Y. Lu, V. Bradnova, and I. Otterlund
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Phase transition ,education.field_of_study ,Hadron ,Population ,Charge density ,Supercritical fluid ,Nuclear physics ,Fragmentation (mass spectrometry) ,Nuclear fusion ,Nuclear emulsion ,Nuclear Experiment ,education - Abstract
The complete charge distribution of products from Au nuclei fragmenting in nuclear emulsion at 10.7A GeV has been measured. Multiplicities of produced particles and particles associated with the target source are used to select peripheral and central events. A statistical analysis, based on event-by-event charge distributions, show that a population of subcritical, critical and supercritical events, i.e. a phase transition like behaviour, is observed among peripheral collisions.
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- 1998